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Introduction to Buddhism 4-week Course

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 22:47

Introduction to Buddhism 4-week Course

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 28 Mar, 2016 - 22:47

This course is a practical exploration of the Dharma — the core teachings of the Buddha. Topics include the life of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, ethics, meditation, and Buddhist visions of reality, Includes meditation practice and is suitable for all levels of experience. Thursday evenings 7-9 PM.

Offered by donation. $80-40 suggested for the entire course. Attend one or all sessions. Two opportunities this Spring:

May 26 - June 16 Register here

Munisha

Cuernavaca: an eternal spring of Dharma in Mexico

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 23:50

Cuernavaca: an eternal spring of Dharma in Mexico

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 23:50

The Centro Budista de Cuernavaca is about an hour south of Mexico City. Founded in the historic centre of the city in 2013 by Akashavajri, Saddhajoti, and Nagapriya, to accommodate its growing sangha it recently moved to a comfortable house with a large garden and several rooms for a small residential community; not to mention a swimming pool too!

Nagapriya is a British Order member, and the Centre’s first Chair. He writes: “There is a high level of interest in Buddhism...

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Dhammarati on Sabbatical, Solitary Retreat, and the International Council

From Community Highlights on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 20:44

Dhammarati - in conversation here with Dhammamegha - is one of the most experienced members of the Triratna College of Public Preceptors having chaired it for over ten years. Here he talks about his long sabbatical after leaving that job - a rich, deep time that encompassed post-Impressionist galleries in New York and lengthy solitary retreats in California and in Wales.

We hear about his personal study and his practical exploration of the Triratna system of practice and...

Satyapurna

Job Opportunities at the North London Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 18:43

Job Opportunities at the North London Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 18:43

Practise and communicate Buddhism as part of the centre team at Triratna’s North London Buddhist Centre. The trustees are looking for two full-time members to join an established and effective team at our beautiful, well-located and flourishing centre.

This may be for you if you are interested in exploring work and practice within a Triratna team. One role requires financial skills including bookkeeping/ payroll, the second role includes fundraising/ event organising and/or caretaking/ maintenance. Full training will be provided.

Closing date for applications:...

Munisha

Tacoma: new centre in the northwest USA

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 15:14

Tacoma: new centre in the northwest USA

From Triratna News on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 15:14

In Tacoma, Washington, Triratna has a new centre in the northwest of the USA. The Tacoma Buddhist Center was officially born on 8th March this year, a sister to the nearby Seattle Buddhist Center and the Portland Buddhist Center in Oregon - and, indeed, Vancouver Buddhist Center over the border in Canada.

See Tacoma on a map.

Tacoma’s centre has been Manidha’s vision for many years. She writes: “I always imagined building a community with...

Munisha

Is Triratna's equal ordination really unique in the Buddhist world?

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 18:19

Is Triratna's equal ordination really unique in the Buddhist world?

From Triratna in the Buddhist World on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 18:19

Recently someone asked me whether it is true that Triratna is unique in the Buddhist world in ordaining women and men equally, as we often say. Here is my reply, which does not claim to be definitive.

“In bhikkhuni (female) ordination (Theravada and Mahayana) women have to be ordained by women and then also by men, whereas bhikkhus (men) are ordained only by men. ie there is a double ordination for women but not for men.

Its lineage having died out, the ‘double’ Theravada bhikkhuni ordination has...

Munisha

Growth Fund 2016 open for applications

From Triratna News on Tue, 22 Mar, 2016 - 17:37

Applications are invited to the Growth Fund, closing date 9th May 2016.

The Growth Fund is a small fund made available by Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA) every year, for local projects leading to a growth in numbers of people having access to Triratna classes in basic meditation and Dharma.

Mokshini writes from the ECA’s Growth Fund Committee with more detail.

“This year we have a total of around £6,418 to give away in small amounts of up to £1,000 each to Triratna projects around the world (excluding India, for which Karuna...

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Dhammalata

It's Almost Easter!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 22:36

It's Almost Easter!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 22:36

Easter always feels like the end of summer to me. As a surfer I used to note that the water got colder and those balmy summer conditions were fading fast …..

And hey, we’re at the end of the first quarter of the new year!

Shakespeare had quite a bit to say about the elasticity of time; we experience it so differently depending on the pleasantness or unpleasantness of what’s happening. For a boy walking to school his moments of...

Padmapriya

Tea and tree

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 19:08

Tea and tree

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 19:08

Meditation, Tea Ceremony, introduction to Bonsai Art

Padmapriya

Meditation, Tea Ceremony and Introduction to Bonsai Art

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 08:16

Meditation, Tea Ceremony and Introduction to Bonsai Art

From Triratna East Surrey on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 - 08:16

Buddhists down the millennia have always found ways to bring there practise into daily life and there daily life into there practise. We will spend a day looking and experiencing two iconic ways which have been elevated to both a high art and express the deepest spiritual values of both Buddhist and Taoist traditions.

Both Bonsai (the art of ornamental and miniature trees) and the Tea ceremony have played a significant roll in Buddhist practise. The tea ceremony exemplifies Mindfulness, Bonsai expresses...

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